Improvement in coach-pads for harness



A. GILLIAM.

.Uoach Pads for Harness.

.No. 141,873, Pqtented August19,1873.

Wtlnssas:

UNITED STATES ALGERNON GILLIAM, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COACH-PADS FOR HARNESS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No- 341,873, dated August 19, 1873; application filed May 29, 1873. I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALGERNON GILLIAM, of the city of Pittsburg, county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in OoaclrPads for Harness; and I do hereby declare the following to be a true and correct description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part and parcel of this my specification.

My present invention is an improvement upon the harness-pads hitherto patented by me, upon the 30th of April, 1867, and the 19th of October, 1869 5 and consists of a novel mode of attaching the trimmings, securing the burs or nuts in their proper position to receive the terret's and hooks, so as to admit of ready and easy adjustment of the same, even by an unskilled person.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and arrangement.

Figure 1 represents myimproved coach-pad with all the parts in position, and showing the mode of connection of the pad-plate to the pad by means of screws and terrets, burs and nuts. Fig. 2 shows the leather backing to the pad itself, and to which it is fastened in any convenient manner, with a depression or slot made in its upper side to receive the bur or nut, into which the screw upon the terret enters.

Arepresents the metallic tree 5 B, the leather back to the pad B. D is a nut secured to the under side of the leather back B, to receive and hold the screw 0 that passes through the metallic tree A, the latter being covered by a leather band or strap fitting into and between the flanges formed upon the metallic tree, and conforming to the shape of the latter. Upon the upper side of the leather backing to the pad I make a depression of size and shape sufficiently large to receive the bur piece or nut E, so that the flanges of the bur piece or nut shall lie flush with the leather, the projection or hub of the bur piece or nut being received into a hole formed in the depression, above referred to, in the leather back of the pad, into which bur piece or nut the terret F is secured. By this mode of adjustment no tools are required to be used, and any unskilled person can adjust the terret, bur piece, or nut,

when desired. The bur piece or nut, fitting into the depression a, is prevented from having any lateral movement, and no fastening being required to keep it in place upon the pad, other than that of the screw formed upon the terrets.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The pad-strap, B having formed within it an elongated slot or depression, a, to receive the bur or nut E, without any other mode or means of fastening such nut, in combination with the pad-tree A and terret F,the whole constructed and arranged in the manner and for the purpose herein described.

ALGERNON GILLIAM. Witnesses:

EDM. F. BROWN, B. F. JAMES.

QFFICE. 

